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Tulip

#6,094 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: tulip

Tulip has been given to 302 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #6,094 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Tulip, 2025

1 in 166,000

Tulip over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tulip: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: tulip

English

What Tulip means

Tulip takes the English word tulip into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Tulip is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 302 girls were recorded with the name Tulip between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,448 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,148 in 2020 to #6,094 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,438 in 2015 to #6,094 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tulip?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,094
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tulip sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tulip. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tulips were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tulip was born before 2019 — so the typical Tulip is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
302
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2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Tulip rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−321
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−946
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,344
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2018 (32)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,448
2018

Spellings of Tulip

Tulip is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 49.4% against Tulip's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tulip is used

Across 1910–2025, Tulip was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 767,557 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tulip has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tulip around the world

Where Tulip ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2021–2021
    #6,961
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2012–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2004–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tulip by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,094
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 946
Best rank ever
#4,448
2018
Peak year
2018
32 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
302
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Tulip

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tulip

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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